REIGATE HUNDRED 



HORLEY 



whose descendant in the fourth generation, John 

 Henry Bridges, now holds the lands which are known 

 as Langshott Manor. 



At the end of the I 3th century 40 acres of land in 

 Horley, and a messuage there worth I 3^. were held 

 of Fulk de Archek, lord of Woodmansterne, by 

 suit at the court of Woodmansterne. 70 It is possible 

 that this land was part of what was afterwards known 

 as the manor of K1NNERSLET in Horley. Fulk 

 held his lands in the right of his wife, and they were 

 afterwards inherited by her family, passing at length to 

 John Skinner." During this time no trace of the lands 

 in Horley can be found, but in 1 506 Agnes, a daughter 

 and co-heir of John Skinner, then wife of Roger Leigh 

 and formerly wife of Thomas Chaloner, held Wood- 

 mansterne together with the ' moiety of Kynworsley 

 in Horley." 1 In 1556 Henry Lechford and Cle- 

 mency his wife held 80 acres of land in Horley 

 called ' Kenersley ' and Ladyland, in the right of Cle- 

 mency daughter of Huchar, 71 who was Lechford's 

 second wife." They demised the land in 1556 to 

 Richard Hever on a ten-year lease for a rent of 1 2 

 per annum." In 1563 they conveyed the reversion 

 of ' the manor of Kinnersley ' from themselves and 

 the heirs of Clemency to John Cowper ; " in the 

 following year Hever brought a suit against the latter 

 for wrongfully entering on the premises. 77 



Cowper sold Kinnersley in 1566 to John More. 78 

 Edward More and Mary his wife conveyed to George 

 and Jasper Holmden in 1 5 84," and they, with others, 

 to Matthew Carew, Master in the Court of Chancery, 

 in isSy. 80 The manor changed hands many times 

 at the beginning of the iyth century. It passed 

 successively from Carew to James Cromer, 81 William 

 Southland, 82 George Huxley, 85 and finally, in 1 606, 

 to Sir William Mounson," a distinguished admiral, 

 who had served under Essex in the Cadiz expedition, 

 and was at this time in command of the fleet in the 

 narrow seas, a post which he held until 1615. In 

 this year he fell under suspicion of being implicated 

 in the murder of Overbury and was committed to the 

 Tower in 1616. He was, however, released in the 

 following year and made vice-admiral of the narrow 

 seas, remaining in the navy until 1635, when he 

 retired to Kinnersley and spent the last seven years of 



his life compiling naval tracts. 84 He died in 1642 

 seised of the manor of Kinnersley, which he held 

 jointly with his son John, who died three years later. 86 



Anne, daughter and heir of John Mounson, 

 married Sir Francis Throckmorton ; they, with Ann 

 Mounson, widow, conveyed the manor in 1667 to 

 Arthur Kettleby and George Petty, 87 from whom it 

 passed, in 1675,10 Benjamin Bonwick, 88 whose son 

 Benjamin, according to Manning, left two daughters 

 and co-heirs. 88 In 1740 Charles Mason and Sarah 

 his wife conveyed a moiety of the manor to Richard 

 Ireland ; M he obtained the other moiety from Samuel 

 Duplock and Mary his wife in 1765." At his death 

 in 1 7 80 the manor passed by will to his niece Ann 

 Jones," whose son Arthur held in 1797," when he 

 sold to Robert Piper, 94 and the latter's family held it 

 as late as iSzg. 93 During the next ten years it passed 

 through the hands of Gibson, Fosket and Clark. 96 John 

 Clark held until after 1845. It became the property, 

 before 1855, of J. C. Sherrard, who held until after 

 1874. It passed soon after to the Brocklehurst family, 

 and is at present held by Mr. Edward Brocklehurst. 87 



From the i6th century onwards the right of free 

 fishery at Horley is mentioned as appurtenant to 

 Kinnersley.* 8 



In 1263 Mary daughter of William de Dammartin 

 received a grant of a water-mill and a carucate of land 

 in Horley to be held of Roger de Loges and his heirs 

 for the annual rent of a pair of gold spurs, or 6J. and 

 foreign service. 88 It was probably part of the lands 

 afterwards known as the manor of LODGE in Horley ; 

 a water-mill was included among the appurtenances of 

 this manor in the 1 6th century. 100 A tenement called 

 Labbokland, which Roger son of Roger atte Logge had 

 quitclaimed to the Abbot of Chertsey in 1324,"" was 

 also held with the manor about 1590."" Evi- 

 dently this family, who held the manor of Lodge 

 in Burstow (q.v.) in the I4th century, gave their 

 name to their lands in Horley also. These latter lands 

 they may have held of the Abbot of Chertsey, while 

 their under-tenants held of them as mesne lords. In 

 the 1 5th century Lodge in Horley was held of the 

 lord of the manor of Lodge in Burstow,"" while in the 

 next century it was held of Sir Robert Southwell, 104 

 to whom the manor of Horley had been granted at 



""Chan. Inq. p.m. zi Edw. I, no. 37 ; 

 32 Edw. I, no. 28. 



71 Vide Woodmansterne ; Manning and 

 Bray, Hist. ofSurr. ii, 460, 461. 



7" Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 21 Hen. V; 

 Manning and Bray, Hist of Surr. ii, 244. 



78 Ct. of Req. bdle. 41, no. 26 ; Visit, 

 of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 43. 



74 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), czlv, 1 3 ; 

 Visit, of Surr. (Harl. Soc. xliii), 43. The 

 fact that hit first wife had been Mary, 

 daughter of a Thomas Chaloner (Visit, of 

 Surr. [Harl. Soc. xliii] 43) suggests that 

 the moiety of 'Kynworsley' held by 

 Agnes, co-heir of John Skinner and at 

 one time wife of Thomas Chaloner, 

 passed by marriage of a daughter Mary to 

 Lechford, and that he obtained different 

 moieties of the manor with each of his 

 wives, Clemency having acquired hers 

 from Elizabeth Scott, the second co-heir 

 of John Skinner. There is also a manor 

 of Kinnersley in Carshalton, of which 

 John Scott died seised in 1532, but in 

 spite of this coincidence, the descents do 

 not seem to have been otherwise the same, 

 for John Scott acquired this Kinnersley 



from Edward Burton and his wife Isa- 

 bel, who were holding in the right of 

 Isabel. 



75 Ct. of Req. bdle. 41, no. 26. 



78 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 5 Eliz. Cow- 

 per's mother was also named Clemency. 

 She was the daughter of Engler, so 

 was not the same as Clemency Lechford. 

 In 1549 she bought land in Horley of 

 Robert Hawkes as Clemency Cowper, 

 widow (Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 3 Edw. 

 VI). In 1566 Cowper sold the land 

 which his mother, Clemency Cowper, had 

 bought of Hawkes (Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 

 8 Eliz.). Richard Cowper, her husband, 

 who held Roys in Horley of the manor 

 of Banstead, died in 1 549. His youngest 

 son and heir, 'according to the custom of 

 the manor,' was Robert (Banstead Ct. R. 

 2 May 1549). He also held Langshott in 

 Horley (q.v.). John and Richard were 

 other sons. 



77 See note 75. 



' Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 8 Eliz. 



7 Ibid. Trin. 26 Eliz. 



80 Ibid. Trin. 29 Eliz. 



81 Ibid. Hil. 42 Eliz. 



20 3 



83 Ibid. Trin. 43 Eliz. 

 88 Ibid. Trin. I Jas. I. 

 "Ibid. Mich. 4 Jas. I. 

 85 Diet. Nat. Biog. 



88 Ibid. ; Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 7 Chas. I; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxii, 26. 



87 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 19 Chas. II ; 

 Brydges, Collins Peerage, vii. 



88 Feet of F. Surr. East 27 Chas. II. 



89 Manning and Bray t Hist. of Surr. ii, 90. 



90 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 14 Geo. II. 



91 Ibid. Trin. 5 Geo. III. 

 P.C.C. 323 Collins. 



98 Recov. R.East. 29 Geo. Ill, rot. 312; 

 Feet of F. Surr. Trin. 37 Geo. III. 

 94 See note 89. 



94 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 8 & 9 Geo. IV. 

 98 Brayley, Hist, of Surr. iv, 283. 



97 Kelly, Directories of Surr. 



98 See above references. 



99 Feet of F. Surr. Hil. 47 Hen. III. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxxiv, 189. 



101 Exch. K. R. Misc. Bks. xxv, fol. 

 361*. 



104 Pat. 32 Eliz. pt. xxi, m. 12. 



108 Chan. Inq. p.m. 1 1 Edw. IV, no. 42. 



* Ibid. (Ser. 2), Ixxii, 85 i cxl, 176. 



